Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice (Transformations: Womanist studies)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (949 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0252082702 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 176 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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The word 'tenderness' may soften the lens of inquiry. I love this radical book down to its tiniest footnote. ” Mary Rose O'Reilley, author of The Peaceable Classroom. "In bold and lyrical prose, Becky Thompson offers a practical model for embodied teaching, for a classroom where painful realities like genocide, slavery, colonization, and rape culture can become the subject of fearless ”or fear transcending ”study. Thompson's experience is deep and her exposition infinitely subtle. This is how the word is used in my own (Quaker) tradition, as (to paraphrase Adrienne Rich) an 'instrument to touch the wound beyond the wound.' And, as an experienced yoga teacher, she invites
Becky Thompson envisions such a curriculum ”and a way of being ”that promises to bring about a sea change in education. The patience and mindful attentiveness that emerges spurs students to achieve great work drawn from their best selves. Throughout, Thompson invites readers into her classroom and the lives of her students to illuminate how methods like yoga and sleep for overworked students have led to dramatic transformations.. Thompson's pedagogy of tenderness encompasses a student's whole self, helping the individual to merge mind, body, spirit, and emotions to achieve true understanding. As she shows, teaching with tenderness encourages us to truly listen to one another; makes room for emotion and uncomfortable perspectives; and welcomes silence, breathing, and movement. Imagine a classroom that explores the twinned ideas of embodied teaching and a pedagogy of tenderness